Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/14/15:58:07
Thanks, I didn't read the link...
EDDIE
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted.
>
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Eddie Chan wrote:
>
>
>>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Eddie Chan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I have set up cygwin to be able to remote shell to it. In cygwin, I
>>>>was able to do
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>ls "\\\\epic\\devspace-cm\\scripts"
>>>>
>>>FYI, you can use forward slashes too, i.e., the following will work:
>>>
>>>ls //epic/devspace-cm/scripts
>>>
>>>(so no need to double the backslashes, or to quote). BTW, quotes don't do
>>>anything in this particular case anyway, as the only thing you need to
>>>protect are the backslashes, which aren't protected by double quotes.
>>>
>>>
>>>>epic is the network file system.
>>>>
>>>>But whe I try to run the same command remotely, it failed to access the
>>>>network share. Any idea how to fix it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>rsh deckard 'ls "\\\\epic\\devspace-cm"'
>>>>
>>>>ls: \\epic\devspace-cm: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>>It seems that rsh to cygwin didn't have the same privilege as execute
>>>>locally.
>>>>Any response is appreciated!
>>>
>>>It doesn't. See the second paragraph of
>>><http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-switch>.
>>> Igor
>>>P.S. This was wa-ay too on-topic for the cygwin-talk list. Please
>>>restrict this thread to the main Cygwin list.
>>
>>Thanks for your suggestion.
>>
>>However, the problem seems to be the permission from rsh. I try the
>>commmand on cygwin window without problem...
>>
>>
>>>ls //epic/devspace-cm
>>
>>But if I run the command through remote shell. I got the access problem...
>>
>>
>>>rsh deckard 'ls //epic/devspace-cm'
>>
>>ls: //epic/devspace-cm: No such file or directory
>>
>>It seems to me that when you run remote shell, you lose some permission
>>as you running directly from cygwin window.
>>Any idea???
>
>
> Umm, you *did* read my *whole* reply above, right? And you did follow the
> link I provided, right? I said that rsh does lose the permission
> ("doesn't have the same privilege", rather).
>
> In short (to reiterate the content of the link), you cannot access network
> shares that require password authentication when logging in without a
> password. This is a Windows limitation, and Cygwin can do nothing about
> it. Either use a password to rsh, or change the share permissions to not
> require a password.
> Igor
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